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Posted: Feb 3, 2014 - 4:46am
1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

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Posted: Feb 3, 2014 - 4:45am
1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.

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Posted: Feb 1, 2014 - 4:28pm
Fifty years ago this week ...

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Posted: Jan 31, 2014 - 6:25am
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.

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Posted: Jan 31, 2014 - 6:25am
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.

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Posted: Jan 31, 2014 - 6:24am
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.

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Posted: Jan 31, 2014 - 6:23am
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.

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Posted: Jan 31, 2014 - 6:22am
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.

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Posted: Jan 31, 2014 - 6:21am
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.

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Posted: Jan 30, 2014 - 4:49am
1969

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Posted: Jan 29, 2014 - 5:56am
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2014 - 5:55am
1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2014 - 5:54am
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2014 - 5:54am
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2014 - 5:53am
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2014 - 5:53am
1845 – "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe

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Posted: Jan 29, 2014 - 5:53am
1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 7:45am
Red_Dragon wrote: 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. It was odd that it was one day short of exactly 19 years from the Apollo 1 tragedy. In '86, a co-worker told me they had just heard about it on their radio while driving in.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 7:44am
Antigone wrote: I was working in the bookstore in Northern Virginia. A customer came in and told us. I accused them of lying. we were in Science class, watching it on TV.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 7:38am
Red_Dragon wrote: 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. I was working in the bookstore in Northern Virginia. A customer came in and told us. I accused them of lying.

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